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Douglas Kamerow
Douglas Kamerow		 I propose that people stop wearing headphones when they are out in public...More serious than harming your hearing...it appears that earphone use in public can actually endanger your life.
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Inside Health Care
Inside Health Care

The Price of Paperwork

Thursday, 01.26.2012   3:10 PM
It's said that time is money. In this case, health care insiders argue that Americans and U.S. health insurers are spending too much of both.
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Jessie Gruman
Jessie Gruman		 We are all going to have to become tougher and smarter, even when we are sick — if we are going to benefit from the health care available to us. What is it that we really need to know to do this successfully?
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Kenny Lin
Kenny Lin

Guest Blog: How Much Does it Cost to Have a Baby?

Tuesday, 01.24.2012   1:13 PM
My wife and I are expecting our third child, and our new insurance plan requires us to pay 20% coinsurance for all non-preventive care. Given the rapid rate of health care inflation, we thought it prudent to find out how much it would cost this time around. So, we asked for an estimate of the charges. It seemed like a reasonable enough request…
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Michael Millenson
Michael Millenson		 It’s always interesting to watch health reform concepts move from policy shops and peer-reviewed papers into the mainstream. Provider report cards have surfaced in venues as diverse as Martha Stewart Living and The Examiner, a supermarket tabloid that promised to reveal “America’s 50 Best Hospitals.”
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Trudy Lieberman
Trudy Lieberman

Revisiting Those Explanations of Benefits

Thursday, 01.19.2012   1:11 PM
Katie Ryan-Anderson, a health reporter at the Jamestown Sun in Jamestown, North Dakota, had a question. What did all that gobbledygook on the Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota mean?
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Small Steps: Adapting to New Technology for Better Health

Joan RederJoan Reder, a diabetic, spends her days working as a medical transcriptionist, so you might assume she’d be pretty comfortable with anything involving medicine. But recently, the 59 year-old was faced with the daunting prospect of converting from her familiar daily insulin injections to an insulin pump, which would continuously monitor her blood glucose and deliver insulin to her body when needed....Read More

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Jessie Gruman
CFAH President

Lessons from the Year of Living Sick-ishly

 Jessie GrumanThe new year set me reflecting about what I’ve learned about being sick over the past 12 months that only the experience itself could teach me. You know that old Supremes song, “You Can’t Hurry Love”? I learned that you can’t necessarily hurry healing either, even if you work hard at it...Read More

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